Word: seamanship
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...corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast Guard destroyer Upshur which oiled the tossing water, convoyed the steamer at 1½knots into Norfolk 24 hours late. Debarking passengers sent up a great cheer for Captain Heath's steady seamanship...
...four years Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley Boyle has been ashore. Until last year as President of Britain's Annapolis, the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Vice Admiral commanding the Royal Naval War College, he beat navigation, gunnery, seamanship and engineering into hundreds of young men. ''Gingrer" Boyle's nickname comes from the fact that his hair, his eyes, his temper and his voice are all red. At 59 he snorts loudly at the elaborate technical training of modern midshipmen, is proud that he first went to sea at 14, that though he is heir presumptive...
...larger jib topsail. Thebaud pulled up a little after they had rounded the first mark; she was sailing at her best angle, with booms well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after trimming sheets stood off to westward...
Taking the R. O. T. C. cruise as part of their regular course in Naval Science the students were given instruction in every phase of seamanship from standing watch to piloting the boat. The students were entertained in every port with dances, teas, sight-seeing trips, and theatres...
...novices were Initiated into all the mysteries of seamanship on a Navy cruiser of the second line. They took turns at standing watch in all quarters of the ship, from bridge to fire-room. Lectures were held on the theory and practice of navigation, and the students were required to make detailed study and drawings of the more important parts of the engines and the navigating apparatus...